Nathan Pitman

@bcherny.bsky.social are there plans to address the conversation UI (left pane) in Claude? It’s file and folder management hell and very few visual affordances. There has to be a better way right?

Weeknote! 🖥️ What I want from the iMac M6 🤖 Apple’s weird new AI photo tools 💿 30 ground-breaking tech events 👾 My outlier GamerCard review 🛸 Tempest 2000… on Pico-8 🤫 A quietly excellent Quiet Riot 👆 The joy of Tapotron And more! reverttosaved.com/2026/10/04/w...

A MacOS Menubar that tracks your AI usage and estimates your carbon emissions and water and electricity usage. github.com/abovedave/ai... #noteworthy

AI in September 🗓️ - month three of my AI log. Using Claude Design for PowerPoint slides, a 90s Macromedia Director animation brought back to life in HTML, OpenTTD Mod fixes and isometric sprites, plus Jev, doom headlines and mountains of AI slop. nathanpitman.com/posts/ai-in-...

#my9games

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

Turns out people are now writing up early British blogging and social media in history texts. So that's... going to make me feel old. interculture.com.ua/en/journals/...

If you regularly switch which Mac is connected to your workstation at home or work, Magic Switch is a lifesaver - it removes the need to re-pair your mouse and keyboard every time. It’s like a software KVM. #noteworthy github.com/MegaManSec/m...

Is this a good use of tax payers money? Tuning in to watch the UK score nil points every year is one of our most valued cultural lynchpins. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

OMG, this is fantastic. New Ghosts trailer. Cannot wait. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLKG...

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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iPhone Duo is so very Apple. God really is in the details.

If this wonderful post by @vale.rocks about antiquated HTML snippets and artefacts makes you feel warm and fuzzy… then you’re my kind of person. vale.rocks/posts/html-r... #noteworthy

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BREAKING: Matt's been forced into a "leave of absence" www.404media.co/wordpress-au...

Any chance Apple will launch. Fitbit Air equivalent at the September event? I’m awfully tempted to replace my now ageing Apple Watch with something that doesn’t nag me all day but tracks my exercise and sleep. #apple #surpriseandshine

Episode 1 of New Grand Tour, I’d give it a 6 out of 10. And to be fair, early episodes of old Grand Tour were probably a 7, so all in all - not bad. #grandtour

My Apple HomePod has started playing music at random times of the day despite no one asking it to do so, even when I’m not at home (I can see it playing through the Home app). Anyone else experiencing this or is my HomePod just developing some kind of musical sentience.

AI in August 🗓️ - month two of my AI log. This month: reigniting clients stalled during onboarding, squashing a tricky AI tutor bug, auditing SEO/PPC keywords against our ICPs, a contract-review skill, and a reply to “I’m Done Using AI”. nathanpitman.com/posts/ai-in-...

Lotem Ipsum has even permeated architectural renderings.

We have seen many examples of what people can make with very little effort in the new world. We have not yet seen what can be made with tremendous effort and it will be astonishing.

We’re delighted to have been asked to create the icon for Jeff Halter’s free, open-source macOS Tahoe app, which brings the original classic Mac After Dark screensaver modules back to life. Looking for a hand-crafted icon for your app? Get in touch: design@iconfactory.com iconfactory.com

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

I'm so shocked. I'm stunned. Who knew it could have any affect? llewellyn.substack.com/p/im-shocked...

The RCA for the outage we had at GitHub yesterday is live. We're sorry it happened and hope this answers your questions about it. The team is already working on the actions listed here to fix it. www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zk...

Impressive customer service from Anthropic, they detected billing related to some cloud code sessions that got stuck in a restart loop while waiting for a permission prompt to be answered, proactively refunded me the credit usage fee and doubled it.

Weeknote: 🗑️ Apple iPhone cases are trash 🔠 Another amazing word game ☠️ Netflix kills two game studios 🧙 Wolf(enstein) 3D on Game Boy Color 🚨 The badly written UK national alert 🦫 Climate change is rubbish. Beavers are not. reverttosaved.com/2026/08/16/w...

Fantastic video on the exact origins and journey of Lorem Ipsum - from Latin text to Letraset, Aldus Pagemaker and global designer vocabulary. youtu.be/kL1PDqzqhM4?... #noteworthy

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

I’m Done Using AI. “It made me lazy. It made me stop caring. It made me a worse programmer. It made me depressed. Because I stopped doing the hard work, I stopped learning, I stopped growing, I stopped being the one making the software.” [brettcodes.com]

AI in July 🗓️ - kicking off a monthly log of what I’m actually building with AI. This month: a conversational training tutor, a lead enrichment API, a web player for animations trapped on 90s floppy disks, and turning a CRO audit into redesigned pages in hours. nathanpitman.com/posts/ai-in-...

I'm thinking about how non-developers will feel about atproto. For example, will it take people by surprise that data entered into one app can show up somewhere else? More thoughts in this post.

the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app. here’s my unedited, nearly two-minute launch sequence. i was just searching for a bookshelf

“You don’t have to blog like me” - this is 100% noteworthy. danq.me/2026/07/02/y... #noteworthy

Were you alive when Windows 95 was new? Remember Microsoft Comic Chat? I loved it. I missed it. They open sourced it on July 16th! Of course, I *had* to modernize the app with a classic feel. No IRC, but you can do E2E encrypted chats with others. Enjoy! arcade.pirillo.com/comic-chatte...

Until today I’d never noticed this neat little detail in the 2023 Glassdoor logo update - very smart. www.creativebloq.com/news/glassdo... #noteworthy

Looking back on "Going It Alone", the Q&A-style interview series I ran 20+ years ago. nathanpitman.com/posts/going-... /cc @hicks.design @craiggrannell.bsky.social

Everything and Nothing: The End and The Beginning I've officially redesigned my blog. snook.ca/everything/t...

CHILD’S PLAY: I found the perfect way to make an iPhone child-friendly, one that completely blocks web browsing but allows tracking and navigation. It’s not a paid-for 3rd party app, it’s completely free. Why is Apple not highlighting this great feature more? @wired.com www.wired.com/story/this-b...

Great write up by @sturobson.com on not conflating dark/light “mode” with “theme” and the value of separating their control and logic in code. www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/why... #noteworthy

🤘new post🤘 Modes and Themes That Stick - Building a Persistent Toggle Solution I walk us through a three-layer, progressively enhanced, approach to mode and theme switching. https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/modes-and-themes-that-stick-building-a-persistent-toggle-solution 🙏🖤